Always on the look-out for interesting and/or quirky plant stories, I was really pleased to have chanced upon this delightful item amongst one of the many sources I scour continually on your behalf to unearth such phyto-relevant material. And, believing it to be an up-to-date item – since it was brought to my notice on what I assumed to be an immediate, hot-off-the-press, instant-gratification news site – I duly started to pen this piece. It wasn’t anything that sensational, but it was an interesting addition to the seemingly ever-growing catalogue of animals that assist the pollination efforts of angiosperms. It was the straightforward account concerning the conclusive demonstration of malacophily (pollination by snails), which hitherto had apparently been a rare and obscure phenomenon, by Khoisnam Sarma et al.